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im not the one who asked this but oh gods you are so much better than my chem material fr 🙏 need a teacher like you brou

Can you explain aromaticity in organic compounds? It is a fairly huge topic so it's completely understandable if you aren't up to the challenge.

(p.s, I love ur blog <333)

“Not up to the challenge”— I’ve reverse-engineered antibiotics from rocks. Explaining aromaticity is just an appetizer. 😒

Alright. Let’s break it down before I spiral into orbital hybridization graphs and never return:

Aromaticity is a chemical property of certain cyclic (ring-shaped), planar (flat) molecules that results in unusual stabilitydue to the delocalization of π (pi) electrons.

For a molecule to be considered aromatic, it must satisfy Hückel’s Rule:

Be cyclic

Be planar

Have a continuous ring of p-orbitals (i.e., it’s conjugated)

Contain (4n + 2) π electrons (where n is a whole number: 0, 1, 2, etc)

Why does that matter? Because when those π electrons are delocalized—spread evenly over the ring—they stabilize the molecule way more than you'd expect based on normal bonding. That’s why aromatic compounds don’t behave like your average alkenes.

Classic example: Benzene (C₆H₆)

6 carbon atoms in a ring

Each contributes 1 π electron → 6 π electrons

Follows Hückel’s Rule (4n + 2 = 6, n = 1)

Super stable, flat, smells weird

If it had 4 or 8 π electrons instead? Boom: not aromatic. Possibly antiaromatic (less stable), or nonaromatic (no delocalization at all).

So yeah. Aromaticity isn’t about smell, it’s about stability through electron delocalization in a planar ring system.

Chemists spent centuries freaking out over why benzene wouldn’t react like it should. Turns out, electrons were just vibing in a resonance loop the whole time.

Thanks for the blog love, by the way. I’ll keep posting if you keep sending non-stupid questions. 😘

omg omg omg YESSSS EEEEEEEEEEE I LOVE IT SO MUCH ALREADY TYSM TYSM 💛💛

Haha yes the adhd is real 🥲 i hope my burning desire for ryukyo motivates you to write though! (I can only hope sob)

This made me so happy you have no clue tysm!!! <3

when are you making more ryukyo

I love ryukyo a very normal amount trust trust

gehaha hi!! i do have a few wips of them, i just also have a few wips of everything. adhd author hell :D

but! anything for a moot, ill get to work🫡

in the meantime, here's a snippet of a second chapter to the quietest burning rage:

HI!!! ITS PARIS!!! CAN I CALL YOU DEFFY? HERES A CHOCOLATE!!! *bounces and smiles and gives u a 🍫

🤭 HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!

YES YOU CAN <3 I LOVE CHOCOLATE EEEEEEE TYSM

Here's a cookie for you 🍪 mwah :D

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why did you invite me to your wedding by Kevin Atwater but it's wolfstar

imagine Sirius hadn't died, but they never really got past the whole Azkaban thing. I mean, they both thought each other was the traitor in the beginning, and Remus thought Sirius was for over a decade after he went to Azkaban. How do you get over that? How do you regain that trust?

Sirius is heartbroken, of course. He missed over 10 years of Remus' life, he missed every full moon, and Peter and James were gone, meaning he had to do them alone. He sat in a cell while he could've been helping Remus. For years. And then, the first night he sees him again, it's a full moon. Just before his transformation, Remus hugged him, and he probably would have kissed him if there weren't children there. Did you see how close his face was to his? He looked so happy to see him, so maybe they would be able to be together again?

Wrong.

Remus couldn't get over it, but really, can you blame him?

Well Sirius can.

In comes Tonks, Sirius' cousin! Remus is marrying her? He's what?

Of course it makes sense to invite Sirius to the wedding, why wouldn't they? Nymphadora is his cousin after all. But then why wouldn't the invitation come from her? At a regular time? Why did he receive it in the middle of the night from the man he's been in love with since he was young, and who was once in love with him? Why did he, the person who constantly worked to write well, the person who was constantly reading, spell such a simple word as wedding wrong?

Why did he invite him to his wedding?

Adelantos !!!!!!

sengen + pjo :D

stretch - @wolfstarmicrofic - word count: 248

“Prooooongs!” Sirius whined, walking into the dorm room with the air of someone who had received terrible news. “Woooormy!”

“Hmm?” both boys replied, hardly bothering to acknowledge their friend’s antics.

“Moony told me he never wants to kiss me again!” Sirius exclaimed, clutching at his chest and falling dramatically to his bed, bouncing a bit on his mattress.

Remus, who had followed Sirius into the room, gave a dry chuckle. “That’s a bit of a stretch,” he murmured.

James, however, took this distraction as a sign that he should give up on his Potions homework, so he turned to his two friends. “What’d you actually say?” he inquired curiously.

“Sirius asked me if I would still snog him if his tongue was made of a snake,” Remus sighed, sounding quite done with the lot of them. “And I said no.”

“See?” Sirius shrieked. “He hates me!”

“I mean…that’s fair, mate,” Peter piped up, clearly also giving up on his homework. “Sounds like an awful snog to me.”

Sirius gave him a dirty look while Remus smiled at him, obviously relieved that Peter was being reasonable.

James, however, decided that this good-natured drama was much more fun than reason. “Dunno, Moony,” he said in a faux-concerned voice, “sounds a little mean.”

Sirius began to all-out screech, a grin on his face. “Exactly! See?! I knew you’d have my back, James! Moony, how could you?!”

And James just beamed at Remus, who looked like he was about to throttle him.

GRINS LIKE A MANIAC

also, there is a word for day after tomorrow. its called aftermorrow.

why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

Gen: K

Senku: Ah, well potassium is a very nice element

Senku: Very reactive

Senku: Unlike that response you just gave

A quick animation of Remus’s mind during his transformation ✨🥹

Stevie Nicks (1976)